1 /* Generate JSON, XML and DocBook documentation for given NixOS options.
8 eval = import (pkgs.path + "/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix") {
14 in pkgs.nixosOptionsDoc {
15 options = eval.options;
22 , transformOptions ? lib.id # function for additional transformations of the options
23 , documentType ? "appendix" # TODO deprecate "appendix" in favor of "none"
24 # and/or rename function to moduleOptionDoc for clean slate
26 # If you include more than one option list into a document, you need to
27 # provide different ids.
28 , variablelistId ? "configuration-variable-list"
29 # String to prefix to the option XML/HTML id attributes.
30 , optionIdPrefix ? "opt-"
31 , revision ? "" # Specify revision for the options
32 # a set of options the docs we are generating will be merged into, as if by recursiveUpdate.
33 # used to split the options doc build into a static part (nixos/modules) and a dynamic part
34 # (non-nixos modules imported via configuration.nix, other module sources).
35 , baseOptionsJSON ? null
36 # instead of printing warnings for eg options with missing descriptions (which may be lost
37 # by nix build unless -L is given), emit errors instead and fail the build
38 , warningsAreErrors ? true
39 # allow docbook option docs if `true`. only markdown documentation is allowed when set to
40 # `false`, and a different renderer may be used with different bugs and performance
41 # characteristics but (hopefully) indistinguishable output.
42 # deprecated since 23.11.
43 # TODO remove in a while.
44 , allowDocBook ? false
45 # whether lib.mdDoc is required for descriptions to be read as markdown.
46 # deprecated since 23.11.
47 # TODO remove in a while.
48 , markdownByDefault ? true
51 assert markdownByDefault && ! allowDocBook;
54 rawOpts = lib.optionAttrSetToDocList options;
55 transformedOpts = map transformOptions rawOpts;
56 filteredOpts = lib.filter (opt: opt.visible && !opt.internal) transformedOpts;
57 optionsList = lib.flip map filteredOpts
59 // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? relatedPackages && opt.relatedPackages != []) { relatedPackages = genRelatedPackages opt.relatedPackages opt.name; }
62 # Generate DocBook documentation for a list of packages. This is
63 # what `relatedPackages` option of `mkOption` from
64 # ../../../lib/options.nix influences.
66 # Each element of `relatedPackages` can be either
67 # - a string: that will be interpreted as an attribute name from `pkgs` and turned into a link
68 # to search.nixos.org,
69 # - a list: that will be interpreted as an attribute path from `pkgs` and turned into a link
70 # to search.nixos.org,
71 # - an attrset: that can specify `name`, `path`, `comment`
72 # (either of `name`, `path` is required, the rest are optional).
74 # NOTE: No checks against `pkgs` are made to ensure that the referenced package actually exists.
75 # Such checks are not compatible with option docs caching.
76 genRelatedPackages = packages: optName:
78 unpack = p: if lib.isString p then { name = p; }
79 else if lib.isList p then { path = p; }
83 title = args.title or null;
84 name = args.name or (lib.concatStringsSep "." args.path);
86 - [${lib.optionalString (title != null) "${title} aka "}`pkgs.${name}`](
87 https://search.nixos.org/packages?show=${name}&sort=relevance&query=${name}
89 lib.optionalString (args ? comment) "\n\n ${args.comment}"
92 in lib.concatMapStrings (p: describe (unpack p)) packages;
94 optionsNix = builtins.listToAttrs (map (o: { name = o.name; value = removeAttrs o ["name" "visible" "internal"]; }) optionsList);
99 optionsAsciiDoc = pkgs.runCommand "options.adoc" {
100 nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.nixos-render-docs ];
102 nixos-render-docs -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES options asciidoc \
103 --manpage-urls ${pkgs.path + "/doc/manpage-urls.json"} \
104 --revision ${lib.escapeShellArg revision} \
105 ${optionsJSON}/share/doc/nixos/options.json \
109 optionsCommonMark = pkgs.runCommand "options.md" {
110 nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.nixos-render-docs ];
112 nixos-render-docs -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES options commonmark \
113 --manpage-urls ${pkgs.path + "/doc/manpage-urls.json"} \
114 --revision ${lib.escapeShellArg revision} \
115 ${optionsJSON}/share/doc/nixos/options.json \
119 optionsJSON = pkgs.runCommand "options.json"
120 { meta.description = "List of NixOS options in JSON format";
121 nativeBuildInputs = [
125 options = builtins.toFile "options.json"
126 (builtins.unsafeDiscardStringContext (builtins.toJSON optionsNix));
127 # merge with an empty set if baseOptionsJSON is null to run markdown
128 # processing on the input options
130 if baseOptionsJSON == null
131 then builtins.toFile "base.json" "{}"
132 else baseOptionsJSON;
135 # Export list of options in different format.
136 dst=$out/share/doc/nixos
139 TOUCH_IF_DB=$dst/.used-docbook \
140 python ${./mergeJSON.py} \
141 ${lib.optionalString warningsAreErrors "--warnings-are-errors"} \
145 if grep /nixpkgs/nixos/modules $dst/options.json; then
146 echo "The manual appears to depend on the location of Nixpkgs, which is bad"
147 echo "since this prevents sharing via the NixOS channel. This is typically"
148 echo "caused by an option default that refers to a relative path (see above"
149 echo "for hints about the offending path)."
153 brotli -9 < $dst/options.json > $dst/options.json.br
155 mkdir -p $out/nix-support
156 echo "file json $dst/options.json" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
157 echo "file json-br $dst/options.json.br" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
160 optionsDocBook = lib.warn "optionsDocBook is deprecated since 23.11 and will be removed in 24.05"
161 (pkgs.runCommand "options-docbook.xml" {
162 nativeBuildInputs = [
163 pkgs.nixos-render-docs
166 nixos-render-docs -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES options docbook \
167 --manpage-urls ${pkgs.path + "/doc/manpage-urls.json"} \
168 --revision ${lib.escapeShellArg revision} \
169 --document-type ${lib.escapeShellArg documentType} \
170 --varlist-id ${lib.escapeShellArg variablelistId} \
171 --id-prefix ${lib.escapeShellArg optionIdPrefix} \
172 ${optionsJSON}/share/doc/nixos/options.json \